Sunday
Sunday
12.00 – 7.00pm Big Lunch Tent
1.00 – 5.30pm Workshop Arena
1.00 – 5.30pm Open Performance Arena
Saturday and Sunday
Global Workshop Arena
Important : Please wear comfortable, loose clothing and trainers or appropriate shoes for all workshops
• 2pm Saturday & Sunday Robson Irish Dance Group
Based at St Alphonsus Church Hall in North Ormesby this group of boys and girls, ages 4 – 24, proudly perform this intricate, traditional dance form at numerous events including at Royal Albert Hall and at the World Irish Dance Championships in Philadelphia, USA.
• 4.45pm – 5.30pm Sunday Bollywood Girls
A chance for girls only to try out the same session as the boys. Ages : 8 – 14yrs. All abilities welcome.
Saturday and Sunday
The Mela Mix
Throughout the two days there are many exciting things happening in spaces and places around the Festival Site.
We’re nearly 21 so bring in your photos! Next year it will be the Mela’s 21st Birthday and what better way to celebrate than to show photographs and memories from over those years. Our information tent will be collecting your memorabilia and photos to put into our archive and which we’ll use to create a Mela Memory Board in 2011.
Are you itching to show off your talent? Our new Open Performance Arena gives you the opportunity to do just that! Between 2.00pm and 5.00pm on Celebrate Sunday bring along your music on an iPod or CD and join local band ‘Undercover’ in expressing yourself through poetry, music, dance, whatever you’ve got that fits in with the Mela ethos! The arena is open to showing anything from anyone and we particularly encourage people and groups from our local global communities. But please remember this is a family area and entertainment should be suitable for a family audience. Special thanks to ‘Undercover’ for making the Open Performance Arena possible.
Cycling Recycling – We’re going GREEN! What do you do you normally do with your cans and plastic at the Mela? Well this year watch out for the Magnificent Macmillan Academy who’ll be cycling whilst recycling their way around the festival site on specially designed trikes with recycling bins on the back for you put your recyclable rubbish in. And if you want to know more about recycling they are definitely the people to ask. Thanks also to Middlesbrough Transport and Policy Department and Middlesbrough Waste Awareness.
Migration and Sacred Places : The Mela, Discover Middlesbrough and Gallery TS1 are teaming up this year to collect people’s thoughts, stories and photos on ‘Migration’ and ‘Sacred Places’, this year’s theme for Discover Middlesbrough. A specially designed tree, created by artists who work with Gallery TS1, will be at the Mela, will tour around libraries during the weeks building up to Discover Middlesbrough and be on display in Gallery TS1 on Corporation Road during Discover Middlesbrough fortnight (9th to 26th September). Add your thoughts, stories or photographs about ‘Migration’ and your ‘Sacred Places’ to the tree at the information tent throughout Celebrate Sunday. Supported by the Cohesion Partnership.
The Tate Movie Truck will tour the UK throughout the summer (July 2010 – October 2010) its first visit being Middlesbrough Mela on Celebration Sunday! Tate is collaborating with Aardman, the animation company behind Wallace and Gromit, in partnership with creative agency Fallon, to produce the Tate Movie, the first of its kind – an animation film made by and for children across the UK. The truck is equipped with everything needed to run taster workshops and will visit schools, community centres, festivals and shows around the countryside encouraging children to provide all the assets for the film including: story ideas, characters, environments, sets, props, dialogue, jokes, sound effects, and music, all of which will be pulled together by a team of professional filmmakers. So look out for the Tate Movie Truck on Celebrate Sunday.